• 9 min read
Retail Object Detection with RF-DETR
Detect visible beverage products with RF-DETR, compare their counts with fixed camera-frame thresholds, and use Gemini 2.5 Pro to generate a shelf inspection summary.
• 17 min read
Teaching a Porch to Recognize Delivery Drivers and Accept Packages
An end-to-end build of a self-unlocking porch lockbox: on-device detection on an old iPhone gates a cloud Roboflow Workflow, which validates courier-with-package events inside a drawn porch zone and triggers a solenoid lock through an ESP32. Includes delivery verification and a live dashboard.
• 11 min read
Cosmetic Defect Detection with Computer Vision
Learn how computer vision can automate cosmetic defect inspection by detecting paint scratches and identifying the affected car part. This guide shows how to train an RF-DETR model in Roboflow, build a part-level inspection Workflow, and return visual results and repair-ready outputs for QA review.
• 11 min read
Analyze Video Feeds for Process Monitoring with RF-DETR
Analyze video feeds for process monitoring with Roboflow: RF-DETR detects, ByteTrack tracks, and a line counter logs counts and speed.
• 13 min read
Automate Surface Defects Detection with Vision AI
Learn how computer vision can detect surface defects. This guide explains common use cases and shows how to build a Roboflow surface inspection workflow that detects defects, visualizes results, and supports quality decisions.
• 11 min read
How to Detect Paint Defects with Computer Vision
Automate paint defect inspection in manufacturing. Learn how to train an RF-DETR model and build a visual QA pipeline using Roboflow Workflows.
• 10 min read
Predictive Maintenance with Vision AI
Use RF-DETR to detect early bearing defects and Gemini 2.5 Pro to analyze defect severity, explain potential failure causes, and generate maintenance recommendations.
• 4 min read
Build a 3D Soccer Offside (VAR) System
Learn how to build a 3D soccer offside (VAR) system from any video clip.
• 5 min read
Natural Language Image Annotation
Automatically annotate images from text prompts: SAM 3 masks in Roboflow or Autodistill in Python, then train RF-DETR.
• 15 min read
Defect Inspection
Automate manufacturing defect inspection with computer vision. Learn how to train an RF-DETR model and build a pass/fail QA workflow using Roboflow and Gemini.
• 8 min read
Building a Drone-Based Security System with Computer Vision
Learn how to build an automated drone security system. Use Roboflow inference, supervision, and PTZ cameras to detect intrusions and dispatch drones.
• 7 min read
Tarmac Safety AI
Build an automated airport FOD detection workflow using RF-DETR, Roboflow Workflows, and Gemini 2.5 Pro.
• 11 min read
Video Analytics with Vision AI
Automate conveyor box inspection with video analytics. Learn how to combine RF-DETR, ByteTrack, and Gemini 2.5 Pro in Roboflow to track and detect defects.
• 7 min read
Injection Molding Defect Detection for Medical Components
Use RF-DETR and Gemini 2.5 Pro to detect defects on molded components and generate automated inspection observations.
• 9 min read
How to Fine-Tune RF-DETR Keypoints on Custom Data
A step-by-step guide to fine-tuning RF-DETR Keypoint on a custom basketball court dataset, from COCO pretrained inference to training, evaluation, and broadcast-video inference.
• 9 min read
Steel Strip Defect Inspection
Train an RF-DETR model on steel strip defects and build a Workflow that sorts every inspection into pass, review, or fail.
• 8 min read
Building an AI-Powered Robotic Welding Defect Detection System
Use RF-DETR and Gemini 2.5 Pro to identify welding defects and generate automated quality inspection reports.
• 13 min read
Real-Time Keypoint Detection with RF-DETR
Discover RF-DETR Keypoint, a real-time, end-to-end detection model. Outperforming YOLO26-pose, it offers self-calibrating loss & Apache 2.0 license.
• 8 min read
Surface Defect Detection on Machined Metal Medical Parts
Use RF-DETR and Gemini 2.5 Pro to detect surface defects on machined medical components and generate automated inspection observations.
• 8 min read
IV Bag Fill-Level and Leak Detection
Build an automated IV bag fill-level and leak detection system using RF-DETR and Gemini 2.5 Pro.
• 9 min read
Automated Tire Sidewall OCR
Automate tire sidewall OCR to extract DOT codes, sizes, and brands. Learn to combine RF-DETR and multimodal LLMs into a Roboflow Vision Agent.
• 8 min read
How to Add an LLM to a Vision Pipeline (And When to Avoid It)
Discover when to add an LLM to your computer vision pipeline. Learn how to combine object detection and visual reasoning in Roboflow Workflows.
• 8 min read
OCR Lot Code and Expiry Date Verification for Medical Packaging
Train a Roboflow localization model, isolate printed label fields, and verify batch numbers and expiry dates with Google Gemini.
• 12 min read
Give My Agent Eyes
Combine RF-DETR and LMMs to build an AI pipeline that perceives, reasons, and acts.
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